Ubisoft has slapped a date on the upcoming Ghost Recon: Breakpoint beta. To gain access, you need to have either pre-ordered the game, or previously signed up for the beta on the official site. It begins on the 5th September, and ends on the 9th. You can check out the handy timezone chart below to find out when you can get pre-loading.

Four in-game regions will feature in the beta: Smuggler Coves, Mount Hodgson, Sinking Country, and Fen Bog. Within them, you'll be able to take on a number of PvE missions, which you can tackle alone or with up to three other players.

It sounds like a pretty robust beta, but will you be taking part? Try to avoid those drones in the comments section below.

Robert's been a dedicated PlayStation fan since the days of Tekken 2, and he still loves a good dust up. When he's not practising combos, he's usually getting lost in the latest 100-hour RPG, or, y'know, replaying The Witcher 3.

@WanderingBullet I honestly like Wildlands better than The Division and The Division 2, purely on a personal level. I just found the co-op gameplay an absolute blast at times.

Wildlands and now Breakpoint are basically open worlders where you're free to tackle missions however you want. Stealth, guns blazing, whatever. Strap a bunch of C4 to a truck and smash it into a base. It's just good fun.

The Division is much more of an RPG. Loot, stats, character builds. I liked The Division 2 quite a bit, but it never really stuck with me, and I never really had as much fun as I did in Wildlands. Hoping Breakpoint is the same!

I played Wildlands on my tod and thought the ai teammates were decent enough when playing pure stealthily. They were awful when s**t hit the fan though and were obviously never taught how to cross roads or train tracks safely.

I much preferred Wildlands to The Division. That said, I was in the technical test a few months back, and there are (or were) elements of The Division creeping in to Breakpoint which I personally was not in favour of.

I'm interested to see what's in the beta and whether these elements are still present. If they're in the final game, it may sway my purchasing decision.